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Old 11-07-2015, 12:46
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Why did the Gestapo immediately execute the crash survivors last week instead of interrogating them first? They knew they were special operations, surely finding out their mission would be the priority?
They were under general orders to shoot people there and then. One of the officers wanted to take them back, but the order was pointed out and carried out.
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Old 11-07-2015, 16:59
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Why did they not blow it up properly?
They didn't have 20,000 lbs of TNT handy.
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Old 12-07-2015, 11:36
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Why did the Gestapo immediately execute the crash survivors last week instead of interrogating them first? They knew they were special operations, surely finding out their mission would be the priority?
They didn't, this is one of the areas of so-called artistic licence. There were more survivors in one of the gliders and they were shot in the afternoon of that day near the German base to which they's been taken. Injured survivors in the other glider which crashed further north were in effect tortured to death by having medical treatment withheld and then being given injections of air. Five uninjured survivors were taken to Oslo, placed in solitary confinement and then shot some weeks later.

There appears to have some uncertainty as to which branch of the German forces had jurisdiction over the prisoners and perhaps there was disquiet re the Kommandobefehl as this order to shoot captured soldiers on special missions had not afaik yet applied in Norway.
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Old 24-07-2015, 21:37
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Wow, they spent no money at all on the big sinking ferry scene. It's like they gave up.
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Old 25-07-2015, 01:25
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I really enjoyed this series.
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